January 4, 2011
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Image via Wikipedia Amicus noster Adrian Murdoch is celebrating the quinquennium of his Bread and Circuses blog by inaugurating a series of brief podcasts on Roman emperors. The first one is (obviously) about Augustus and serves as a nice intro to that guy’s principate: Emperors of Rome: Augustus According to Adrian, these will be posted…
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Image via Wikipedia pridie nonas januarias ludi compitales — day two of a moveable festival which might occur anytime between Saturnalia and January 5. It was largely a rural occasion involving woollen dolls being made to represent each free member of the household (simple woollen balls would be used to represent slaves) being hung up…
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